Suppose you know you are an idiot, what profession should you choose?

Discussion in 'Professional Trading' started by lolatency, Mar 24, 2009.

  1. ugz

    ugz

    pilots. they get paid well and do not work too many hrs.
     
    #111     Jan 6, 2011
  2. W4rl0ck

    W4rl0ck

    Hilarious. :)

     
    #112     Jan 6, 2011
  3. Humpy

    Humpy

    Try showbiz

    you can clown around outragiously AND get paid for it

    :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
     
    #113     Jan 6, 2011
  4. Humpy

    Humpy

    that's what makes American influenced societies so criminal

    the do-gooders make sure mass murders get a more comfortable life in prison than the poor pensioners, homeless, unemployed etc.
     
    #114     Jan 6, 2011
  5. I have another idea - learn survival and wilderness skills, then go to a remote part of the country and live off the land. Hunt, fish, grow basic crops and vegetables, live off-grid with solar panels and a generator/dynamo. Supplement your income with giving hunting/shooting/survival tuition to rich yuppies who are bored of city life and fancy some countryside tourism, and set up a website publishing photos, videos, and instruction lessons for these things.
     
    #115     Jan 7, 2011
  6. Humpy

    Humpy

    You may be onto a winner here Ghost.

    Even if the idiot lives in a big city he could offer spicy weekends in say his home city, preferably New York or somewhere people have heard of. A weekend in the side of the city tourists never see. etc. where yuppies could slum it or meet the weirdos of **** in their natural habitat.
     
    #116     Jan 7, 2011
  7. Here is a better idea: Become a Special Needs teacher for the mentally challenged.

    You won't need to know how to read or write as you will be teaching kids who aren't going to read or write. You will have a secure union job and taxpayers will be forced to pay for your living.
     
    #117     Jan 8, 2011
  8. i trade, this is not a hypothetical question.
     
    #118     Jan 8, 2011
  9. Humpy

    Humpy

    Not much feedback from the OP lolatency ????

    Even idiots can learn basic good manners ?

    Its no disgrace coming second to a person with more ability as long as one has done one's best effort.

    Do that and keep cheerful whatever life may throw at you is my motto.
     
    #119     Jan 8, 2011
  10. When I first got involved with the market at a professional level, it was considered that Commodities were the place for idiots. Financials have relative value calculations (even if done on an HP calculator,) and equities have balance sheets to examine. Commodities have industries and economies which are so big and vague that intelligence wasn't an advantageous characteristic. Guts and patience were needed.

    Much has changed, but the studies, that I have read, have continued to find commodities too diverse a basket to be tractable to relative pricing methods. Myself, this is what makes commodities so attractive. Relative pricing may make for automated profits, but it makes for boring conversation!

    In some ways, I must agree with some of my fellow posters that management is a place for idiots. Supervisory level management ability may be negatively correlated to intelligence. A key cause is the disincentive to advance key competence. Beyond that, intelligent people tend to be flighty, and real solutions take alot of time to become reality. There is a need for a dampening effect to ensure convergence, even if to something suboptimal.
     
    #120     Jan 8, 2011